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Every Family Dinner Now (jemmy.jeena.net)
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[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 18 points 9 months ago

Low-background steel, also known as pre-war steel, is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. Typically sourced from ships (either as part of regular scrapping or shipwrecks) and other steel artifacts of this era, it is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout.[1][2]

Very interesting, today I learned.